It doesn't speak English
Your Jeli is born speaking Jeli and picks up English a word at a time, over weeks. There's no translate button. Working it out is the game.
How Jeli works →Wear OS & Android
Your own virtual
Jeli companion.
A Jeli hatches from an egg, learns to talk over the following weeks, and gets attached to whoever looks after it. It lives on your watch and your phone. Walk, and it eats. Ignore it, and it notices.
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Ten species · Ten hearts · One language to work out
num num… mog-ka
Thistle · tap it
Your steps are its dinner
The watch turns walking into treats. 200 steps buys one, and it counts while the app is shut, so a walk to the shops is a meal.
Treats →It can stay at a friend's
Send your Jeli to someone else's phone. Your habitat sits empty until it comes home, and how they treated it shows on its record.
Visiting →Four things it needs
All four fall in real time, whether the app is open or not.
Food
Feeding
Rest
Sleeping
Mood
Playing, toys, petting
Cleanliness
Bathing
The meters are hidden by default in the app. You read your Jeli by looking at it. How to read one →
Listen to it grow up
Fluency is one dial, not four fixed voices. Your Jeli decides word by word whether it knows the English yet, so its speech shifts as it ages and as its hearts fill.
It is trying to say: “I'm hungry. Can I sleep soon?”
nu… nu-nu… mo-mo
Hatchling
Mostly babble. Even its own language comes out mangled.
Ten to meet
Your species is decided when your egg hatches, and it is yours for life.
Tap an egg.
Eight things to play
Each one pays something different, and nothing pays everything. The ones your Jeli takes part in wait until it knows you.
Run
Pays half hearts
An endless runner starring your own Jeli, drawn with your species, crest and colours. No cooldown, no streak to break.
Pong
Pays half hearts 2 hearts
First to five against your Jeli. It plays the other paddle for itself and it plays to win. Thrash it and it will go off the idea for a day.
Cups
Pays half hearts 1 heart
It hides under one of three cups, they shuffle, you point. However slow your phone is, it never ends up somewhere you could not follow.
Catch
Pays treats
The way to feed your Jeli when you have not been walking. A few hours between paid rounds.
Pounce
Pays treats
Five rounds of wait, then go. Tap early and you lose the round, and the wait is never the same length twice.
Sing back
Pays treats
It plays a phrase on four pads in its own voice and you play it back, one note longer every round.
Balance
Pays mood
Your Jeli stands on a plank and you tilt the phone to keep it there. The one that asks you to hold the handset rather than tap it.
Walks
Pays mood
Send it off on its own for a while. It comes back cheerful, and usually with something you cannot buy anywhere.
Warm the egg
Pays a shorter wait
A rhythm game that hatches your egg early. Every attempt counts, and every attempt makes the timing harder for good.
Send it to a friend's house
It actually leaves. Your habitat sits empty until it comes back.
- Your friend feeds it, plays with it, bathes it
- It arrives with its own treats, so hosting is free
- Their care lands on your Jeli's record, good or bad
- Visits end on their own, up to a day
The watch is not a second screen
The two devices do different jobs, and they never lose each other's work.
Watch
- Turns your steps into treats
- Feed, play, bathe, sleep, pet
- One line of chatter
Phone
- All the games
- History, records, toy box
- Friends and visiting
Act on either while the other is in a drawer. Both count when they meet. How syncing works →
The wiki
The manual, including the only Jeli dictionary there is.
Start here
What a Jeli is, and the first few days with one.
3 pagesCaring for it
Needs, sleep, illness, hearts, mood, treats and toys.
10 pagesJelis
The ten species, their coats, and how to read a Jeli.
3 pagesGames
Eight things to play, and what each one pays.
10 pagesFriends
Sending your Jeli to stay, and hosting someone else's.
2 pagesThe Jeli language
What your Jeli is saying.
4 pagesWatch and phone
One Jeli across two devices.
3 pagesAbout
Privacy and contact.
2 pagesClosed beta
It isn't on the stores yet
Jelifriend goes out to a small group of testers first. Sign up and we'll email you a build to install.
- An invite by email, with the download
- Wear OS owners especially wanted
- A lounge to report problems and compare notes
Sign up to test
Go on then. Hatch one.
It won't understand a word you say for weeks. That's rather the idea.
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